The good news is Twitter is set to expand it's character limit to 280, double the current 140, meaning less time spend abbreviating words to get your thoughts to fit in a single message.

The bad news is Donald Trump can cause twice as much damage every time he picks up his phone.

The social media platform is making the change after research found rising levels of frustration at the limit.

It was also discovered that Tweeters using English struggle far more to stay within the 140 character limit.

The move was announced by CEO Jack Dorsey in a Tweet - which appropriately contained far more than 140 characters.

He wrote: “This is a small change, but a big move for us. 140 was an arbitrary choice based on the 160 character SMS limit. Proud of how thoughtful the team has been in solving a real problem people have when trying to tweet. And at the same time maintaining our brevity, speed, and essence!”

In a blog, Twitter's product manager Aliza Rosen and the company's senior software engineer Ikuhiro Ihara said they had thought long and hard about the change.

They wrote: "Twitter is about brevity. It's what makes it such a great way to see what's happening. Tweets get right to the point with the information or thoughts that matter. That is something we will never change.

"We understand since many of you have been Tweeting for years, there may be an emotional attachment to 140 characters – we felt it, too.

"But we tried this, saw the power of what it will do, and fell in love with this new, still brief, constraint. We are excited to share this today, and we will keep you posted about what we see and what comes next."

The news was greeted positively onine, although one tweeter could not resist poking fun.

The 280 character limit will be tested on a small group of users before it is rolled out to the wider network.